Pompano Beach News
By TAPINTO POMPANO BEACH STAFF
December 4, 2025
POMPANO BEACH — The action is underway as world-class beach volleyball - with all matches free and open to the public - returns to Pompano Beach for the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour (BPT) Futures tournament.It's all part of the second annual Pompano Beach Volleyball Festival, which runs through ...
POMPANO BEACH — The city officially opened a new set of eight lighted pickleball courts at Sgt. Kip Jacoby/Norwood Park on Thursday. The ribbon cutting was much-anticipated for players living in Pompano's mid-south neighborhoods like Lyons Park, Garden Isles, and Cypress Lakes.City officials noted ...
BOCA RATON, FL — New Orleans-style Beignets & Brew will open a location in Boca Raton soon, although an official date has not been announced. The company’s website listed Boca Raton under its “coming soon” locations, and a window sign has been placed at the door of an empty space at the Polo ...
POMPANO BEACH — It started with a burst of gunfire outside a Pompano Beach McDonald's on a quiet Tuesday night, with a man sprawled in a parking lot, and a second victim who vanished into the night before anyone knew he’d been hit. It would take detectives time to unravel what happened, identify a ...
POMPANO BEACH — For more than 25 years, the children and parents of the Pompano Piranhas Swim Team have built an original Christmas float for the city’s upcoming annual “Yuletide on Atlantic’’ parade. It's a homespun holiday tradition members say is a source of hometown pride - with some ...
POMPANO BEACH — If things stay on schedule, the city's first skatepark could be ready to go by April of next year,City officials broke ground Thursday morning on the $1.8 million project, designed to give kids and adults a safe, dedicated space for skateboarders and BMXers alike. Over the coming ...
POMPANO BEACH - A sweeping redevelopment is poised to reshape a key stretch of South Federal Highway, where the Pompano Beach Marine Center wants to replace its current buildings with a fortified, 37,000-square-foot marine dealership complex.Four J’s Investment, owner of the Pompano Beach Marine ...
POMPANO BEACH — No, it's not your imagination if it seems like I-95 seems more strewn with trash than say, five or 10 years ago. According to Florida state transportation officials, garbage discarded by motorists — and a newer phenomenon of illegal dumping — are turning the highway into a perpetual ...
POMPANO BEACH — A man was stabbed early Saturday after an argument with an unidentified individual, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.Deputies were called around 4:45 a.m. to the 2500 block of West Atlantic Boulevard, where they found the victim suffering from a stab wound. Pompano Beach ...
POMPANO BEACH — The local post office has been warning about it for several years now, but it appears the postal service's long awaited move from its longstanding facilities at 1950 NE 6th Street - its location since 1962 - will soon be underway.Kudos to a TAPinto reader who spied the signs going ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — Coral Springs police say they have finally cracked a long-running “cold case.” But the case did not involve murder, violence, or a missing person.Instead, they were able to identify a suspected perfume thief who slipped out of an Ulta Beauty store eight months ago with more than ...
COCONUT CREEK, FL — A house in Coconut Creek’s Hammocks Estates caught on fire Tuesday night, totally engulfing the second floor before firefighters put the blaze out. No one was hurt, according to Scott Leamon, a fire department spokesperson. Firefighters saved two chihuahuas, Brownie and Pepper, ...
BOCA RATON, FL. — City officials are pitching residents of the St. Andrews Country Club — a luxury real-estate subdivision of more than 700 homes — on the benefits of agreeing to being annexed by Boca Raton.According to a letter sent by the city, “Annexation…would provide Saint Andrews residents ...
POMPANO BEACH — The city will break ground next Tuesday on the much-awaited, much-anticipated skatepark, at Pompano Community Park - the final step towards completion of the project.The ceremony is set for 10 a.m. at the site of the skatepark, at 1801 NE 8th Street. Officials will mark the start of ...
POMPANO BEACH — Broward County school officials have released a list of Pompano Beach elementary schools, as well as other schools in the county, that do not have a full-time nurse on staff. The document was obtained through a public-records request submitted by TAPinto Pompano Beach on November ...
CORAL SPRINGS, FL — After a recent baby shower, the party moved to a Coral Springs home, where a man, who was mad because he got lost on the way there, started hurling diaper boxes at a woman before knocking her to the ground and assaulting her. At around 12:45 a.m. on Nov. 10, Coral Springs police ...
POMPANO BEACH — One person was killed and another was wounded in a shooting outside a McDonald's restaurant in Pompano Beach Tuesday night, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office (BSO).In a late morning update, BSO identified the fatal shooting victim as Tyrone Holton, with a date-of-birth of ...
BOCA RATON, FL — A Palm Beach County Circuit judge on Tuesday threw the two ballot questions that the advocacy group Save Boca wanted to put in front of Boca Raton voters off a January special-election ballot. Ned Kimmelman, a retired lawyer, sued Save Boca, which was formed to fight against Boca ...
POMPANO BEACH — Pompano Beach officials are warning residents about a cybersecurity incident involving CodeRED, the third-party emergency alert system used by the city, after learning that a dataset tied to user accounts may have been accessed by an unauthorized party.City officials said the ...
POMPANO BEACH — A real estate investment group — Advenir Azora — is betting big on Pompano Beach, calling it a growing, supply-constrained market, as the firm moves to acquire a 249-unit apartment community along Federal Highway.The investment firm obtained a $53.3 million, five-year fixed-rate ...
POMPANO BEACH — A 17-year-old boy reported missing from Pompano Beach has been found safe, authorities said.Detectives with the Broward Sheriff’s Office Missing Persons Unit said Monday that Alec Treto was located unharmed and reunited with his family.BSO issued a missing person alert for Treto ...
POMPANO BEACH, FL - Monarch Hill Landfill near Pompano Beach has been recognized as the top-performing landfill in North America for environmental excellence, earning the 2024 Waste Management (WM) Excellence in Environmental Performance Award, company officials announced.WM President and Chief ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Authorities in Alabama have set the bond for Pompano Beach native Daniel Mincey at $90,000, who is charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault for the alleged stabbing of two football teammates at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).Authorities said the incident ...
POMPANO BEACH, FL. — Broward Sheriff’s Office detectives are asking for the public’s help to find a 17-year-old boy missing from Pompano Beach.Investigators say Alec Treto was last seen around 2:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21, near the 900 block of Northwest Third Terrace.Treto is about 5 feet 3 inches ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Daniel Mincey, a redshirt freshman football player from Pompano Beach, was arrested Saturday after police say he stabbed two teammates at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) hours before the team’s final home game.The stabbing occurred early Saturday inside the Football ...
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — Federal authorities released surveillance images of a suspected bank robber who held up a Chase Bank branch in Pompano Beach and fled without getting any cash.The FBI said investigators believe the robber is a woman.The robbery attempt occurred at about 10:01 a.m. Thursday at ...
POMPANO BEACH — A record crowd of more than a thousand people packed Annie Adderly Gillis Park on Saturday evening for the 19th annual Light Up MLK, kicking off the holiday season along the Martin Luther King Jr. corridor with music, lights and a strong sense of community pride.Biggest ‘Light Up ...
POMPANO BEACH - A reported Broward Sheriff's Office sting operation in Pompano has netted more than a dozen arrests for prostitution-related offenses.In reviewing the civil court docket in recent days, deputies have arrested a series of individuals for “purchasing the services of a prostitute, 1st ...
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — A 36-year-old man was arrested Thursday night after deputies say he fired a gun during a domestic dispute with a woman in Pompano Beach.According to the Broward Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to the 200 block of Northwest 11th Street around 8:13 p.m. for reports of a ...
POMPANO BEACH — Blanche Ely High School unveiled a towering new mural outside its gymnasium Thursday night, celebrating the school’s Tiger pride, the image of its namesake pioneering educator, and the legacy of longtime math teacher and championship basketball coach Melvin Randall.More than 50 ...